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    "id": 317742,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I believe my friend, hon. Mutula Kilonzo, came in late in the day in the Ministry. But I also believe it is still possible to bring the teachers’ union to a round-table discussion. We must not make this a populist agenda. I know my party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), believes in education and adequate, commensurate remuneration to the teachers. But our budget, as it stands today- -- Bringing in a supplementary budget may not be the solution because we will need additional revenue to fund additional expenditure. However, I strongly believe that within the budget, there can be some little tidying up that can raise some revenue that will make the teachers and the Government meet somewhere in the middle. The demand that has been put by the teachers is quite mind-boggling and, in as much as somebody would want to honour it, the legality is against that kind of demand. There is bound to be a spiral effect of honouring such a demand. However, we must appreciate the role that teachers have played in this country. I am a beneficiary of one late Peter Allan Atonga who taught me in Marindi Primary School. That made me what I am today. I must extend the same commendations to my former teacher Samuel Sawa Maneno who taught me at Alliance High School. Those teachers did a great job. We must realize that this country needs the manpower resource. That is a function of the teaching fraternity. It is with the quality of the children that pass through the hands of the teachers that we have the quality of the country that we want to see. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to plead that several pupils and students are just about to sit for their exams. We must not deny them the chance of last minute teaching because of budgetary constraints. Teachers are all adults. They should be"
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